Late entries. Quickie updates!

July 21st- PicFare

PicFare Primary Students

We went to PicFare Primary School (started by Christ School alumni's) on a boda (motorcycle) with Kevin Barkotvich (the founder of Christ School). Sarah and I led their chapel. They sang to us. We shared the wordless gospel story (the 5 colours) with them. And we prayed with these little blessings.

July 23, BO/GO football game

It was a day of festivities to welcome home Christ School’s old man, Kevin Bartkovich. There was a football game with Old Boys VS. Current Boys (aka alumni male students VS. the current male students). There was traditional Ugandan dancing, speeches, frisbee games, and a dinner. What was funny about the day was, instead of OB/OG for Old Boys and Old Girls, they made a typo and called it BO/GO...those who have been here would understand how appropriate B.O. is in this context.

July 24th- Hike at Nyahuka Falls

It was one epic hike as we clung onto branches, vines, and moss covered rocks. We had a trail of children following us, catching us as we slipped and fell in the mud & dirt. At one point, I almost slid right off the cliff if it wasn't for the boy who trailed behind me and caught my hand. We were truly in the jungle and rainforest.

July 25th- Morning mountain biking

As if an intense hike on the steep green mountain isn't enough, Sarah and I took some bikes out for a ride monday morning. It wasn't exactly mountain biking since we stayed on the dirt roads...but it was pretty much equivalent to Canadian mountain biking considering the road conditions. I even fell over and into a mud swamp. I now have a bruise on my left hip, but it was well worth it. Besides, how can I return home from a missions trip without some battle scars?

July 26th- WE'VE REACHED THE CONGO!

Survey with Baguma & dipping our feet in the Congo

We have finally started our community surveys. Although we will not have time to do a complete comprehensive survey amongst all the villages, we will at least get the job started for the team. We hope the new upcoming team will continue where we left off. So Baguma Charles (a good friend of World Harvest’s and sponsor student, he was just accepted into a university in Kampala for Public Health), picked up Sarah and I on his boda (motorcycle) and we drove to the Congo border and interviewed 3 people: the LC1 (Local Counselor), a mother, and a nurse.

-we discovered that the locals believe children get diarrhea from what they call “Kibale”, a stone, in their colon (most likely from impacted stool, which makes sense).

Then, feeling bold, daring, and adventurous, Baguma took us to the Congo border! At first, the custom guards asked for our passports and lectured us about how we must carry our passports wherever we go. And then he let us go to see the river that separates Uganda and the DRC. So we went to the river and dipped our feet in another country (where many people were bathing).